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India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
(www.theguardian.com)
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I was thinking the same. I wanted to see how long it was going to take to get there, then saw in the article it says it is actually only traveling 1% of the distance from the earth to the sun to offset earth's gravitational pull with the suns and then create an orbit around the Sun. It doesn't say how long the travel time was unless I missed it.
Should create a cool vantage point for photos I imagine
Someone posted a graphic that says travel time is about 4 months.
On one hand, calling that a mission to the sun is a bit... optimistic, on the other, travelling to the sun (and in the same way to Mercury and Venus) is much harder than the other way around.